Exclusive! World First Oppo Find 7 Unboxing and ultimate hands on!

This is a GizChina world exclusive! A 20 minute long Oppo Find 7 unboxing video with complete indepth hands on filmed by myself after purchasing the Oppo Find this morning!

I got plenty of hands on time with the Oppo Find 7 yesterday at the launch, but with so much commotion, noise, hustle and bustle I really didn’t have the time I really wanted to spend with the phone! So when I happened across the local Oppo store which had stock of the just launched Oppo Find 7 how could I not go and buy one!

The Oppo Find 7 launched in China today at 10am and was a real launch at 500 physical stores across the country. The only version on sale today is the 1920 x 1080 FHD model with 2GB RAM with either a black or white colour option. I opted for the white model as it has a textured finish for added grip.

World First Oppo Find 7 Unboxing

I bought the Find 7 from an official Oppo store, where it had already had a screen protector fitted and the staff were nice enough to give me a free flip case. Rather disappointingly the 1080 version of the Find 7 isn’t currently working on China Unicom’s 3G WCDMA. Specifications on the packaging say it should and the staff at the store ensured me that a firmware update will bring 3G to my phone soon, I have emailed Oppo to confirm this, Update: apparently this version of the Find 7 will not work on 3G in China but (according to the packaging) it will work on WCDMA Internationally.

The below unboxing video is almost a full 20 minutes long and features an unboxing, detailed look and description of the body and design, plus a look at some of the new features in Color OS on the phone. If you are looking to buy an Oppo Find 7 this is the video you need to watch!

The Oppo Find 7 FHD 1080 full specifications

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Exclusive Oppo Find 7 Unboxing and hands on

The Find 7 will now be my daily phone while I complete a full review. I will keep you updated with what Oppo have to say about the 3G issue and will post updates over the next few days.

Andi Sykes is the founder and editor of Gizchina.com. When he's not writing about Chinese tech you can find him discussing mountain bikes at: 9to5bike.com.

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Hoàng Vững

Very fast man, Andi

Airyl

Andi is a ninja.

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

Haha a Phone Ninja has a nice RING to it LOL

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

Cheers hope you enjoyed it

BablaDoesDallas

Where is the 2K version review? This is the low end version with poor specs.

Airyl

Poor specs? It might be the lower end version, but it’s specs are not poor.

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

Poor specs?!!

Find791

When would be the 1440p available ? please !!!

Graeme Reid

Andi m8 when ya get bored of I’ll buy it off ya and you can mail me it to england

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

Haha, I have had quite a few offers like this today Hoping it will work well outside China as I will use it on my hols this year.

k

hows the battery drainage?

k

is the screen looks washed out?

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

I running it down now and will let you know asap. Screen is great

Allanitomwesh

Haha,Andi not you too. In ColorOS you can swipe to change menu tabs,you don’t have to click through them like touchwiz.
Nice video. I noticed they don’t bundle the Oband like with N1 and Oclick remote? Maybe it’ll be in the QHD one? Please investigate. Otherwise it is looking real nice,fits in your hand quite well,the size isn’t intimidating.

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

Ah, you can see I’m not a Color OS user

I asked about the Oband and it was an extra 798 Yuan ($128) so I didn’t bother getting one.

Allanitomwesh

Cool,i’d prefer if it was bundled for the extra cost of the QHD one. Please find out

hi is this version work with wcdma 850 and 2100 ?
i want to buy from oppo store.

CocaColaManager

custom gestures on an off screen?

njren

You might clarify that the Find 7 does work on China Mobile’s 3G network, which is TD-SCDMA and, yes, incompatible with China Unicom’s WCDMA network. WCDMA is the 3G king worldwide, but in China TD-SCDMA has the lead in subscribers. China Mobile’s 4G network is also more mature than China Unicom’s (just launched), so it makes sense for Oppo to hitch its wagon to China Mobile. It would also be incomprehensibly stupid to launch a 4G-only device in China at this time.

Dave Weinstein

If I understand the issue correctly, it will work on China Mobile’s UTMS/WCDMA network as well. The radio isn’t disabled, but rather the software it tweaked to ignore China Unicom as an allowed network provider.

onenessboy

Hi Andi,
I am good follower of your website.. what I am looking for phone is 1080p full hd display,Ocotcore processor ,2GB RAM,32GB ROM, Expandable sd slot, 3g, possibly LTE support,3000 + battery, 13 mp camera.MHL or Wifi display faciltiy. I see oppo find 7 has all features but its too costly. can you please suggest any chinese brand which is good in your opinion.

onenessboy

sorry forgot to add– a stylus also…

Cuerex

samsung galaxy note 3 but by the way, octacore doesn’t mean anything at all.. more cores is not better for an operating system.. only faster/better/more efficient cores will get you better performance

Suzie

But 8 faster/better/more efficient cores will get you amazing performance. Thus, MTK6592.

Cuerex

not if the program/OS utilises only 1 core which is almost everytime the case

Furqan

Now that you cant use 3g on it in china but wcdma internationally will work. How about you sell it to me!! i dont mind buying it from you! LMAO

zaikatanox

Andi, I don’t understand why it wouldn’t work with China Unicom? Aren’t they using WCDMA 2100, and doesn’t the Find 7 supposedly support this frequency?

And Yuan depreciation has meant only one thing: this phone is now cheaper for us living in the West. 3000 CNY actually works out to be less than 490 USD Not a bad price considering that the SoC here (MSM8974-AB) is technically faster than the one in the Note 3 or Nexus 5.

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

Hi, the hardware does support it, but Oppo have chosen to black China Unicom for some reason (probably a pay off from China Mobile). We called Oppo China today and they confirmed that WCDMA 3G (along with LTE) will work fine outside of China, but if I want to use 3G in China I will need a China Mobile SIM.

Those are instructions on how to root and remove the “roaming policy” on the Find 7 for it to work on WCDMA in China. I haven’t tried it yet as I want to check feed back from others first (and wait for other options).

http://solariz.de/ Marco G

If this is true this is a NO BUY for me. I’m constantly traveling between china and europe and only unicom is offering reliable WCDMA in China which I need for my other devices. So I have a unicom contract running.

I mean how can a hardware manuafacture do such a force decission for the user?

Will the international version be able to run WCDMA Unicom in China?

zaikatanox

The question is if rooting your OPPO phone will void its warranty. If it doesn’t, then maybe doing so won’t be such a bad thing.

Also, just curious, do you spend the majority of your year in China that you care so much whether you will have 3G there ?

http://solariz.de/ Marco G

Well 3G is a serious thing today, checking emails sending photos and so on… this don’t even need me to be my majority of the year in china. Currently its like 3 to 4 month a Year and this is long time enough for a argument in not buying it if the 3G is limited somehow.

I really hope they fix it in a update soon.

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

I am hoping that either there will be an update, a more simple hack or that the international version of Color OS will fix this.

zaikatanox

That’s a crazy decision by OPPO. Glad to know though that it supports
850/1900 3G and 2100 LTE, so this phone should work fine with most 3G
and LTE networks in Canada.

Anyway, if I’m not mistaken, rooting
won’t void the warranty of your OPPO phone, so it may not be a bad idea
to do it so you can use 3G with Unicom. Maybe you can even provide a
step-by-step guide for those of us who don’t understand Chinese

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

Yep would be a nice feature, I’ll see what we can do

http://solariz.de/ Marco G

@andi: maybe a small article als comperison of the find 7a and the QHD Model would be nice. Also interested in battery lifetime. (Ok a fair comparison is only possible as soon as you get your hands on the QHD Version too)

The thing which make me really mad now is the fact that oppo seems not to response to community questions at all. I Know it’s just a day after the launch but how could they do a launch and tell us not a single word about avaibility for the QHD Version? This remind me of the old days of Nvidia when they announced a “Paper Tiger” chip which only exists on paper not as actual product.

http://www.peterpain.com/ Peter Pain

Congrats on the Puchase. Hope this site keeps growing.

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

Cheers Peter

Gaurav Arora

Did you actually buy one? Didn’t Oppo send a review unit?

Fred

Great review, as always. Thanks Andi.

No IR? There goes my universal remote

What about FM radio?

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

I’ll have a full review next week. IR nope, FM I am not sure

AStarbucks

Yes, Andi, pls confirm if there is an FM radio for offline use. It is a potential deal breaker for international travellers/users. Some sites claim it has, others claim no. Oppo simply chooses to be silent on the issue. Thks!

Cuerex

what is the speaker and headphone jack performance like?

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

Earphone performace is amazing, MaxxAudio is very very nice. I will try the speaker today

Cuerex

thank you, I’m pretty much hyped up for this device.

im just waiting about a review from you and marquess brownlee and i’m ready to order… even sooner when it is released for german i guess

fe

Chinese customers don’t have confidence in oppo find 7,the price are too high for the local brand,they would rather to buy others . what a pity..what does everyone look on find 7?(p.s:almostly,the technology enthusiasts in china don’t like samsung and xiaomi at all,but customs like them a lot)

Steve

Hi Andy,
1. how is the glass protection ? I found out that find 5 was no compare to gorilla galss and could still be scratched
2. what about low light pictures (like in night club ? ) can it takes decent picture with no blurring ? what about compare to iphone photo post-processing ?
Thank you very much !

Steve

by post processing, I meant hardware processing , that makes iphone so great.. not software like photoshop etc..

Airyl

Andi, how is the display compared to the JiaYu S2?

M Yusuf

A Typo in the Specs

ColorOS based on Android 4.3 not 4.2

Nice Review, I hope the O-band comes bundled with the Find7 (just like the O-click + N1)

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

Hi, I did not root it yet as I need access to a Windows machine to do it. Hope I can get it done soon.

Lars-Peter Dijkstra

Liaow shop managed to root the oppo find 7a! Will send it out on tuesday

Emzee007

I am considering buying this phone myself. Really looking forward to your full review Andi! Will surely go a long way in helping me make my decision. Super confused between this and the Oppo N1 at this point

Kiran Fernandes

since this is Android 4.3, im guessing it will be a bit heavy on the ram side… @Gizchina:disqus please give me a screenshot of the running apps and “Settings” should be visible… on 4.2.1, “Settings” takes between 50-200 MB ram sometimes… normally, its between 90 MB… so please let me know how much ram 4.3 uses…

http://www.gizchina.com/ Andi Sykes

I will try to do this, but you are right it does seem RAM heavy. But I believe this is mosty due to ColorOS.

Kiran Fernandes

It has nothing to do with color OS. It has everything to do with android 4.3 jellybean… Android 4.2.1, 4.3 are definitely RAM hogs…. The system apps, especially the “settings” takes a lot of RAM… At stock, the RAM is already 500MB+ used…. Android 4.1.2 and 4.2.2 have some modifications so, it just consumes normal amount of RAM…

Kiran Fernandes

I hope someone can port the Bravia Engine to this find 7…. Since the phone has a Sony sensor, then a bravia port should be a good option…..

When i had the bravia engine on my xperia pro(i lost it yeah…) the colours of the image were…. its really hard to explain, but i really liked the bravia engine…

AStarbucks

So how long does it take to confirm whether there is an FM radio, Andi? You can offer a scoop and be the first to confirm whether it exists as a product spec.